"I don’t need to know that some young woman was murdered walking to her pals house or that our country is responsible for the deaths of many young children in Afghanistan"
This has to be one of the most selfish statements I've read in many a year.
I literally do not need to know, though. And a few decades ago, when information did not flow so freely, I would not have. Having deaths beamed to your pocket 24 hours a day is not desirable or helpful for many people. We are not equipped for it.
Do you remember the names of the many other people murdered this year, say a prayer for them every morning, keep them in your thoughts? No you forget them when they fall out of the news cycle like everyone else. We remember the shocking ones perhaps, the famous ones. That’s not crass it’s reality.
Do not confuse my not needing to know what horrors are occurring in the world at this present moment with not caring. I cared so much about the troubles of the world as a younger man that I ended up In therapy and medicated.
Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
Many of you are rather narrow minded for such lovely people
My message was simple, maybe consume less news and judge things based on your own lived experience. It worked for me, maybe it will help you. Try it and see.
And your responses seem to suggest that taking such steps to facilitate your own happiness are somehow less valid.
You’re one step short of saying Real men read the news. Do you just want people to be unhappy? If someone has a way of living that works for them why would you mock it so readily? I can only assume you want people to be as angry or as disappointed as you are and That people happily going on with their lives, less affected by the worsening of the country, is somehow troubling to you.
I just don’t get it.